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The market has been treating you well in recent years. You have been in the right stocks. You have amassed a small fortune. And now you’re asking yourself some questions:

Should you stay in the market to see your fortune grow bigger -- or cash out?

Should you treat missed opportunities the same as actual losses?

How should you treat negative news about your favorite stock holdings?

What should you do when your brain is hyped over a stock?

The answers to these questions are to be found in the wisdom of anquity.

No, the Classical Era didn’t have financial markets like Wall Street to trade different assets and amass wealth in, as we do in the modern world. But when it comes to amassing and using wealth , the people of that time faced similar issues.

That’s why it’s worthwhile to pay attention to these ten quotes from the Classics:

1. "Don’t try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped" --Aeschylus.

2. "Nothing in excess" —Solon

3. "Greed has no boundaries" --Aristotle

4. "If you don’t want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity" —Aesop

5. "You lose only the things you have"—Epictetus

6. "It doesn’t take much to lose everything, just a little departure from reason" —Epictetus

7. "You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose" —Thucydides

8. "Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes" --Thucydides

9. "People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don’t desire to exhaustive thinking" —Thucydides

10. "Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris" --Thucydides